Hangzhou 72 solar terms ~ long summer

Long summer solar term on May 5, 2020.

Long summer is the seventh of the 24 solar terms.

While Chang Xia waited, he rang the doorbell. Moles are bugs, too. Everything is wrong.

In the long summer, earthworms came out. Earthworms are yin and feel yang.

Long Xia San Hou, Wang Guasheng. The melon is red and the sun is booming.

Dong Zhongshu said: "The sun rises because of fire, which helps to nourish summer."

The sun, which starts with fire, helps everything grow in summer;

Say goodbye to the spring when love breeds everything, and enter the summer when everything grows happily.

The meaning of "summer":

One said: the word "summer" looks like a lush vegetation and a cicada. Cicada is a summer insect and is considered as a symbol of summer.

It is also said that the word "Xia" in Xiao Zhuan highlights the image of the human body. Shuo Wen Jie Zi is interpreted as "China people", which consists of three parts: the head is a page, the hand is a mortar, and the foot is the marrow. Obviously, the word "Xia" representing China people here originated from the Xia Dynasty, not the name of the season. Judging from the "Xia" shape of Qin Gonggui's inscription, it looks like a big limb.

It is also said that the expansion and extension of the meaning of the word "Xia" was in the Zhou Dynasty, and it experienced two changes, one politically and the other culturally, not from the Xia Dynasty. As a word with cultural significance, "Xia" has been worshipped by all the people in China, so it has the cultural significance of "Da". Because the culture of rites and music is the core of Zhou culture, it is called Xia because of its great gift, and the specific meaning of Xia arises from this.

As Er Ya said, "Summer is great. Everything has grown up at this point. The original meaning of summer is to describe the characteristics of everything growing in summer.

Shao Hao tribe begins with the bluebird, which means beginning of spring and Long Summer. Bluebird beginning of spring sings and Long Summer stops (division, arrival and standing in solar terms?

Linear bearing 72 solar terms ~ vernal equinox

Early April and summer are also called "wheat autumn". Early summer is the season of wheat ripening, and autumn is the season of grain ripening, so the ancients extended the name of early summer to "wheat autumn" Cao Pi's "Huai Fu" has "the replacement of a wooden spring, that is, in early summer, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the mind is calm."

Wheat Matured in the Field (Sichuan)

Mulberry hanging on the branches, the most nourishing food in this season (Sichuan)

Yao Dian connects the four seasons represented by the four satellites with the southeast and northwest. "Tube. The Four Seasons says:

It's yin and yang, and it's the best of heaven and earth. Four seasons, yin and yang, yin and yang classics. ......

The stars in the east were called spring at that time, and their breath was called wind.

The south calls it the sun, the summer and the yang.

The west is Chen, when it is autumn, its qi is yin.

In the north, the moon is called, and when it is winter, its gas is called cold.

In the pipe. Cycle ",said:" bucket handle refers to the east, and the world is spring; The handle of the barrel points to the south, and it is summer all over the world ... ":Like a clock hanging in the sky, Polaris is the center of this clock.

With the passage of time, the growth of animals and plants on the earth is also changing.

Xunzi said: "Spring ploughing, summer harvest, autumn harvest and winter storage are all in season, so there are endless grains, and people have enough to eat."

Long summer, from "spring ploughing to Xia Yun".

Cloud, "thunder" means weeding with this farm tool, and "cloud" means "circuitous reunion". The combination of "class" and "cloud" means "using agricultural tools to weed and cultivate the soil around crops" and "collecting the soil without weeds around crops". After ploughing Xia Geng in spring, we can welcome the "autumn harvest and winter storage".

Long summer is in April, and bucket handle points to the southeast. At this time, the growth mode of all things quietly opened. Spring-sown crops have already followed the law of spring planting and long summer, and entered the growing season in full swing, so cross-pollination in long summer has attracted much attention.

In the vibrant green, see the power of all things to grow.

Long summer custom:

According to the Book of Rites, the ancient emperor would lead hundreds of officials to the southern suburbs of Beijing to hold a summer welcoming ceremony on this day. It is very hot in summer, so it is symbolized by fire. During the ceremony, costumes and accessories for Emperor Zhu Rong, the monarch and his subjects should be sacrificed, and even chariots and horses should use fiery red colors to express their hope for the growth of all things.

But some people can't stand the high temperature in summer, often have the imagination of "bitter summer", are weak, don't think about diet, and even lose weight.

Long Xia said people (Qing "Wu Youru painted treasures")

Until today, the custom of calling people by their first names in the long summer is still circulating in some areas in the south. When they arrive in beginning of autumn, they will be summoned again to observe the weight change in summer and make up for the loss by eating stew in beginning of autumn, which is called "iron autumn fertilizer". In fact, most of them are called minors, which conforms to the meaning of "long summer" and is the expectation of parents for their children's growth.

"Summer" ~ "Big"

In this prosperous season, everything is growing. Therefore, the meanings of "Xia" and "Da" are also used to express the size of ethnic groups and the yearning for the growing ethnic groups.

We can also understand the meaning of "Xia" referring to a big country through "Xia, the people of China" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi.

Let's enter the summer "calm, clear air, sea breeze, blue sky and bright moon";

Calm; calm

Green cedar wild house, the sunset is clear.

When you hear birds chirping, take off your towel and walk alone.

If Hongyan doesn't come, my son will travel far.

Thinking is not far away, if it is a lifetime.

The sea breeze is blue and the night is bright.

There is a saying that the river will cross before it.